Prayers answered?

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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Six years ago I was going through a rough patch,shall we say, and got down on my knees and just asked the universe to give me a good,well-paid teaching job and someone to share my life with, who I could really get along with. The next morning I was flicking through the small ads in my local paper and there was the tiniest advertisement saying that a local grammar school needed a French and Spanish teacher to start IMMEDIATELY. I called them the next day ( a Friday), went along straight away for an interview and was asked to start that Monday. To celebrate I went to a dance in a place I had never been to before, met my friend's dance partner's friend ( who was celebrating his birthday that day!) ..and we have now been married 3 years next Friday! So my requests to the universe were granted almost immediately, and my husband got a birthday present he wasn't bargaining for ! :)
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:08:11 +0000Coincidence ID:4619